Sports

Knights drop football opener to perennial power R-P

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Thu, 09/06/2018 - 11:22am

The Kingsland football team dropped its season opener to perennial Class A power Rushford-Peterson 54-12 on Friday, Aug. 31, in Rushford.

After a quiet start to the game, the Trojans offense got going in a hurry, scoring through the air and on the ground. The Knights are 0-1 on the season (0-1 Mid-South East District). Despite the end result, Knights’ coach Brent Stinson said they started off the game playing hard.

Knights beat storm in cross-country opener

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Thu, 09/06/2018 - 11:14am
The Kingsland Knights cross-country teams opened the fall season at the Wabasha-Kellogg Gallop on Monday, Aug. 27, at the Coffee Mill Golf Course and competed at Stewartville three days later. 
At Wabasha-Kellogg, the girls’ team only had four runners, so the Knights didn’t qualify for the team competition. The boys’ team finished in ninth place out of the nine complete boys’ teams. Red Wing swept both the girls’ and boys’ team titles, with Lake City taking second place in both competitions. 

Knights open volleyball season with win

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Tue, 08/28/2018 - 3:01pm

The Kingsland volleyball team started the season with a win at Schaeffer Academy in Rochester on Thursday night, Aug. 23.

The Knights won 3-1 (25-22, 20-25, 25-8, 25-23) on the Lions’ home floor, running their record to 1-0 (1-0 SEC) in their first season in the Southeast Conference. Head coach Sam Hanley said his team played well, especially in the back row.

“Coming into the season, I said our back row had to play much better than they did last season,” he said. “I was very happy with our serve-receive game and how our setters played against Schaeffer.”

Knights optimistic heading into season opener Friday

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Tue, 08/28/2018 - 2:42pm

The Kingsland Knights football team is finishing up preparations for the season opener Friday at Rushford-Peterson, the last team Kingsland played in 2017.

In spite of finishing with one win in nine games last season, the Knights are coming into the fall with higher expectations. The Knights bring back a lot of experienced football players who’ve put their time in, showing a lot of fight in the final game of the season last year that could be a springboard into this season.

Knights open volleyball season Thursday at home

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 10:22am

The Kingsland Knights volleyball team is busy preparing for the upcoming season opener on Thursday, Aug. 23, at home against Schaeffer Academy. The Knights finished last year with a 13-19 record, playing some very good volleyball at times. Now, head coach Sam Hanley is looking for more consistency going into the 2018 season.

Numbers up for Kingsland cross-country this fall

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 10:20am

Fifteen Kingsland cross-country runners have spent the past week preparing for the upcoming fall season. Ten of those 15 runners are coming back with previous experience at the varsity level.

Returning head coach Erin Milz said they’re putting on miles in preparation for the first meet on Monday, Aug. 27, at Wabasha-Kellogg.

Kingsland boys golf team finishes successful season at state meet

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Tue, 06/19/2018 - 12:10pm

The Kingsland boys golf team didn’t shoot as well as the individuals hoped they would at the state meet, but at least they got there, which is something about 150 teams in Minnesota can’t say.

The Section 1A champion golf team played at Pebble Creek Golf Club in Becker last week.

GMLOKS relay team crowned state champion

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Tue, 06/12/2018 - 12:19pm

The GMLOKS track team had four state qualifiers in the 2018 state track meet and came home with one first place champion, a second place winner and a sixth place finisher.

The girls 4x200 relay team of Anika Reiland, Emily Hovden, Lauren Buchholtz and Riley Queensland took the state title in that event.

 The second place finisher was Drew Lewison in the 300-meter hurdles. Lewison also took sixth place in the 110-meter hurdles.

Kingsland boys come back to win section title; Broadwater, Pruter and Moore all-conference

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Tue, 06/12/2018 - 12:15pm

The 2018 Kingsland boys’ golf team will probably be labeled “the comeback kids” from this point forward.  Trailing by six strokes after the first round of play to defending champion Blooming Prairie, the Kingsland boys rallied to win the Section 1A championship by nine strokes.

GMLOK baseball stats wrap up season

Published by lniemeyer@bluff... on Tue, 06/05/2018 - 1:42pm

Statistics have been compiled for the GMLOK baseball team that finished the 2018 season with a 7-10 record. 

The guys were 6-9 in Three Rivers Conference play, 7-8 for the regular season, and 0-1 in sub-section play.  The Bulldogs lost a 12-11 slug-fest to Byron in the first round of the sub-section tournament.

Following are the stat leaders in the various categories for the 2018 season.

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